Effect of job insecurity on intention to leave and moral disengagement

The banking sector has a respectively high personnel turnover rate due to recent global financial crises and technological advances. There has been a significant increase on the number of closed bank branches and banking personnel who recently left their jobs in Turkey during the last five years. Therefore, the underlying uncertain environment has an important impact on job insecurity, intention to leave and moral disengagement perceptions of banking sector employees as well. The main purpose of this study is to explore the effect of job insecurity on intention to leave and moral disengagement. The sample of the present study involves 133 employees currently working at both public and private banks in Kars province, Turkey. The results of this study reveal that job insecurity has a positive statistically significant effect on both intention to leave and moral disengagement. On the other hand, the empirical findings of this study indicate that emotional job insecurity, one of the sub-dimensions of job insecurity, has a positive statistically significant impact on intention to leave, whereas no significant impact was found between emotional job insecurity and moral disengagement. As expected, the analysis results also demonstrate that private bank employees have a higher job insecurity level that public bank counterparts.